"YOU'LL NEVER AMOUNT TO ANYTHING"

Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue
and Amalthea Signum Verlag
invite you to a conversation with
Elisabeth Orth and Norbert Mayer

In her memoirs, Elisabeth Orth talks about her family, her childhood during the war, her youth in the post-war period, her years in Germany and her return to Vienna twice. The reader comes very close to her in these stories.
The colleagues and directors with whom the artist has worked are a Who's Who of German-language theatre, from Oskar Werner, Klaus Maria Brandauer and Gert Voss to Nicholas Ofczarek; from Peter Zadek and Andrea Breth to Martin Kušej and Robert Borgmann.
Elisabeth Orth is far from tired of playing. That's why »You'll never amount to anything« can only be an interim report.

Afterwards, Elisabeth Orth will sign her book at Bread & Wine

Elisabeth Orth, born in Vienna in 1936, graduated from the Max Reinhardt Seminar. After her first engagements at the Volkstheater and the Theater der Courage, she moved to Ulm and the Residenztheater in Munich. She made her debut at the Burgtheater in 1965 and became a member of the ensemble there in 1968, interrupted by her engagement at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz in Berlin from 1955 to 1999. She is a recipient of the Kainz Medal, the Grillparzer Ring and the Austrian Cross of Honour as well as an honorary member of the Burgtheater.
Norbert Mayer, born in Fürstenfeld in 1958, has worked as a journalist in Graz, Brussels, Berlin and Vienna, including for »Der Standard«, »Berliner Zeitung« and »Kurier«. Managing editor of the »Presse« since 2003.

»YOU WILL NEVER BE ANYTHING« Memories. Recorded by Norbert Mayer
1st edition, with numerous illustrations, 256 pages, ISBN: 978-3-85002-911-7, Price: 24.95 EUR